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Archive | December, 2011

Mike styling this boof slot on the Upper Tena. After 3 days of big water paddling, Mike was stoked to get on some technical runs. It made him feel much more at home! Learning to kayak in Ecuador! Many people have the misconception that Ecuador is for advanced kayakers only. It’s true that Ecuador has […]

Don having a nice line down the Pusuno falls Weeks off are very few and far between for us down in Ecuador these days. For the 2011/2012 season we have exactly ONE week off which happened in the beginning of December. So, we knew we had to take full advantage of it and enjoy our […]

Maren walking down the river trail in front of Small World Adventure’s lodge to paddle the Pica Piedra section on the Rio Qujos Combat Rolling—the mental game. The combat roll to a kayaker, is the like dribble to a basketball player. It should be instinctual, reactionary, a thoughtless process. Michael Jordan never worried out on […]

Joey picking his way through one of the many boulder gardens on the Lower Cosanga We had a fired up crew of boaters last week, and they were a cool group to watch progress. All of them had pretty strong Class IV skills and they are all pushing into the IV+ and even V realm. […]